It’s the moment that overshadowed an instant ANZAC Day classic at the MCG on Thursday — and AFL legends are split on who is to blame.
The words Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley directed at the MCG crowd following an epic ANZAC Day contest will long be remembered.
Brown’s set shot drifted across for a behind but having taken 30 seconds off the clock, the young Magpie had done enough.“If an Essendon player had won the medal in that exact same moment and the Collingwood faithful had responded that way, I hope I would have been strong enough to say the same thing and I think I would have,” Buckley said. “I don’t like it but that’s just my opinion.”
“I sit there and shake my head, this was Collingwood’s day and Essendon’s shame,” Robinson said on AFL 360. “I thought it was just shameful.”was booed accepting the medal today.....and while he attempted to speak. Have some respect for an absolute champion . DisgraceLegendary players Nick Riewoldt and Jonathan Brown held differing views.
“I just think it was the spilling out of emotion and disappointment at the result and Bombers thinking ‘oh here’s Collingwood celebrating’ and they didn’t like it. Dunstall didn’t agree with Brereton’s statements and believed that when the game is over that should be the end of it. “I agree with you, but you have just painted it much more than what I think it deserves to be painted,” he said.
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